Bratkinson wrote:While I haven't gotten a hopper fire yet, I have had an occassion with CO into the house, setting off alarms on all 3 floors.

Happened when the outside temps were above 50 or so and I had dialed back the reostat to about 1.5 on the dial. Only a very small flame at that level. Problem is my 60+ year old brick chimney apparently doesn't vent too well. Last season, when it warmed up, I simply put tin foil over the baro and taped it. Solved the problem in my case.

Sometimes you can get away with that on a week chimney but not recommended, especially not with a powervent no matter what brand stove. You would be better off using a little more coal and raising the idle with no convection fan putting some more heat into the chimney. Or fixing the chimney.

Listen to Dave and the others......don't get sooooo economical that you burn the house down.....or have a hopper fire. If you experience one, you won't EVER want that to happen again!!! Or have CO detectors screaming at you.....

whistlenut wrote:Listen to Dave and the others......don't get sooooo economical that you burn the house down.....or have a hopper fire. If you experience one, you won't EVER want that to happen again!!! Or have CO detectors screaming at you.....

I do a lot of science experiments with the stove at the house occasionally one will not go as planned. Well i can say my wife can be louder than the CO detector.